Too much reality TV

OH no, here we go again, yes but there is more reality TV programs — building, cooking, playing around in the jungle, etc — all rubbish and cheap I bet.

Repeat movies, repeat TV series, from the 1930s. Who hasn’t seen The Great Train Robbery, The Train Watcher, The Lady Killers, The Dam Busters etc the list goes on and on.

Decent movies, newer ones at least, must be awfully expensive, because we do not get to see any. Even with the lockdown, and we are confined to the house we still have not much entertainment on the television.

The poor old TV stations must be feeling the pinch if that is the best they can give us, the general public, or those out there as we are generally known are watching anything that comes along, within reason.

The station managers must be off sick. If so I hope they are at home with not much to watch.

Patrick Hopper, Mt Sheridan

“Progressive” that Sunbus should divert its well used — by tourists, pensioners, locals and schoolchildren in non-pandemic times — Lake and Spence street bus route substituting for the convenience of its current stops, a four or five block hike in the blazing sun with a bag of groceries or school bags or luggage.

For a city area Cairns is remarkably low in pollution. Because Spence Street connects directly with the Esplanade there is usually a sea breeze blowing down it and Lake Street has cross streets that add their share of natural ventilation.

Pedestrian use does not automatically increase with the absence of motor traffic.

It usually means nobody is interested in going thereabouts.

And vehicles other than buses, will always confront sensitive noses with fumes in a built-up city area.

Recognise and appreciate what the business area of Cairns has to offer when compared to similar locations.

Terry Fisk, Stratford 1770: Captain James Cook and his ship Endeavour leave Botany Bay to head northwards.

1908: Australia is granted its own coat of

arms.

1928: Age at which women can vote in

Britain is lowered from 30 to 21.

1975: US President Gerald Ford formally

declares an end to the “Vietnam era”. 2006: Veteran Australian reporter Richard Carleton, 62, dies of a heart attack while covering the Beaconsfield miners story in Tasmania.

2012: Vladimir Putin (above) is sworn in as Russia’s president for a third term after four years as prime minister.

2017: Emmanuel Macron becomes the youngest French head of state since Napoleon by defeating Marine Le Pen in the presidential election.